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Americans Took 10.4 Billion Trips on Public Transit in 2011

Americans are in the middle of a serious flirtation with public transportation.

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How to Green Your Holiday Travel

I've come to think of getting to Christmas as another part of the season's indulgence. But there are ways to get home and hold onto green principles.

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How Will High-Speed Rail Impact Los Angeles?

Worried about Carmageddon? Come to this conversation about high-speed rail and envision a better transportation future for L.A.!

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Japan Will Build Blazingly Fast Tokyo to Osaka Maglev Train Japan Will Build Blazingly Fast Tokyo to Osaka Maglev Train

Imagine making it from New York to D.C. in 45 minutes. That's how quickly Japan's maglev train will make it from Tokyo to Nagoya.

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Two-Mile Solar Tunnel Powers Rail Between Paris and Amsterdam

This incredible 16,000-panel solar array on top of a Paris to Amsterdam rail line powers half of the big Antwerp train station nearby.

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Video: This is Why We Need High-Speed Rail in the Northeast

High-speed rail isn't just an environment and energy solution. It also makes great economic and business sense. This video explains.

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How to Sell High-Speed Rail, Mad Men Style

Watch the Mad Men geniuses of marketing brainstorm ways to sell America on high-speed rail.

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Railroad Revival Tour: Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes, and Old Crow Medicine Show Embark on Epic Train Tour of American Southwest

Call it the modern day Festival Express. Three scratchy alt-rock bands embark on a rolling hootenanny of a concert tour. All for trains.

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Who Gets Florida's High Speed Rail Money?

Florida governor Rick Scott rejected $2.4 billion of high-speed rail. Can the Northeast line get that love?

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"Amtrak Joe" Biden Reveals High-Speed Rail Plans

It's a $53 billion investment over the next six years. The ultimate goal: Giving 80 percent of Americans access to high-speed rail within 25 years.

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Maybe Mass Transit Does Hate America: Amtrak Train Kills Bald Eagle

As if red, white, and blue-blooded Republicans needed another reason to hate on mass transit. Amtrak kills bald eagles.

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California's First Stretch of High-speed Rail Now Actually Useful

A vote yesterday will extend the first segment from the relatively unpopulated Central Valley to Bakersfield.

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California Gets Wisconsin and Ohio's Rail Money

Wisconsin and Ohio don't want their money for fast, efficient transportation? Maybe that's better for the future of high-speed rail anyway.

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Amtrak As Subway Map

See Amtrak's entire passenger rail system laid out like a subway map.

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It's Official: California's First Stretch of High-speed Rail Selected

The path to California's transportation future will run through Fresno. But it won't have trains.

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California's Confusing Choice for Its First Stretch of High-Speed Rail

High-speed rail! It's the future of efficient transportation and it's coming to... a relatively rural stretch of California's Central Valley?